Palin Stays In Public Eye

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin isn't keeping a low profile in the days following the defeat in the presidential election. Palin is out giving a series of interviews to try and get her side of the story out on some of those reports leaking out of the McCain-Palin campaign at the end. After a series of stories suggesting that, among other things, Palin was unsure whether Africa is a country or a continent, she fired back at some of those items that had to have come from the GOP campaign. "That is cruel and mean-spirited, it's immature, it's unprofessional, and those guys are jerks," she shot back yesterday and she's scheduled for more interviews in the coming days.

Now it seems Palin will be making a return trip to the "Lower 48" sooner rather than later. She will make an appearance at the Republican Governors Association meeting in Miami where she will appear on a panel discussion titled, "Looking Toward the Future," CBS News' chief political consultant Marc Ambinder reports. Palin will also have media availability, which is certain to attract plenty of attention.

Meanwhile, Palin spent last weekend going through her family's clothes to try to determine what belongs to the RNC, which spent some $150,000 on outfitting the Palins for the campaign trail. "She was just frantically ... trying to sort stuff out," Palin's father, Chuck Heath told the AP. "That's the problem, you know, the kids lose underwear, and everything has to be accounted for. Nothing goes right back to normal," he added.